Welcome Back to the Night

Horror or Thrillers just don't get any better than this. Elizabeth Massie's novel has the intelligence, the grace and the emotional impact of Robert McCammon's best work, the mystery and razor sharp thrills of Koontz' best, the chills and the superb storytelling of King's finest.....all rolled into one package ! If that isn't good enough, she also has the ability to surprise and shock the reader....and I'm talking "jaw on the floor" surprises and shocks. For me, a long ago, jaded horror fan whom mostly yawns at the newer stuff, that is a most welcomed gift. Elizabeth Massie will stir your intellect as many times as she will rattle your bones.....and it happens all throughout the novel. I give Welcome Back to the Night the highest of recommendations to all horror readers. Like my heading states, it's a "stunner of a book."

This is a graphic, terrifying story of a small town, a family, and the evil around them, which some family members choose to ignore while others are forced to face it head on. I didn't want to put the book down, but had to so I could go to work and eat! Massie is a master of character and plot. Very satisfying read. Highly recommended!

What a wonderfully scary, disturbing, yet emotionally satisfying book! This has all a good horror novel needs - atmosphere, an increasingly terrifying situation, characters you can root for and care about, a hideous bad guy, and lots of surprises. I disagree with one viewer who said it was just sick; this book is certainly about sick things, but it is also about three characters who try to come to terms with the bad things in their community and what they can or can't do about them. Highly recommended.

This novel was an incredible, horrific ride in a manner that I have only known Elizabeth Massie to attempt, and complete successfully. While some of the content may seem outside of many readers' experience, I have a more acute sense of the action. I live within a very close range of the place this story takes place. And I can vouch for the reality, the humanity of the characters, that is the true human qualities. The flaws, the latent strengths they posses. The hidden secrets and lies and horrible things that people brush off their shoulders as perfectly acceptable. What is so frightening in a sense is the horrific possiblity of the terrible things that occur in her story and the element of reality that keeps us from forgetting too easily.

Elizabeth Massie has delivered yet another hard-to-put-down, well-worth-reading novel. Set in a small town in the Shenandoah Valley of VA (not unlike the town where I grew up... hmmm), the book explores and exposes the "values" of the town and its pre-emminent family. Massie's pacing is masterful as she weaves four main story lines to a shattering conclusion. Massie doesn't rely on ghosts, goblins, monsters, etc. to horrify. Humans are plenty twisted for her, and the villain of this piece is one of the most twisted characters I've encountered in a long time. From the first chapter, he made my skin crawl. This is a fine, fine read!